The National Hurricane ... Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. On the NHC website, the new image of the Atlantic basin now shows the new label for the body of water known to brew up tropical ...
The National Hurricane Center storm tracking map, a feature as familiar to Floridians as tourist season traffic, now calls the yawning sea cradled between Mexico and the Keys the Gulf of America.
The switch comes after President Donald Trump’s executive order calling for the renaming, although other countries are not adjusting their geographical labels.
The name change to Gulf of America is the first since the 1540s where various maps referred to it as the Mexican Gulf, Golpho ...
which used to say “Gulf of Mexico,” now reads “Gulf of America.” The NHC’s tropical weather discussion bulletin issued Friday also adopted the name change. The discussion includes a ...